BBS Faculty

Mandana Arbab

mandana.arbab@childrens.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor

We are a collaborative group of genome editing scientists at the Translational Neuroscience Center of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School department of Neurology. We strive to develop gene-based therapeutics for genetic neurological...

Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez

joseph_arboleda@meei.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

There is now overwhelming evidence indicating that VEGF, TGFβ, PDGF, and Notch among others, the molecules that are essential for vascular formation, are also part of the cell signaling circuitry contributing to vessel maintenance and the cellular...

Paola Arlotta

Paola_Arlotta@harvard.edu

Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

We are interested in defining the molecular pathways that during development of the mammalian cerebral cortex direct the differentiation of neural progenitors/stem cells into distinct types of projection neurons, and the establishment of their...

Haribabu Arthanari

hari@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) is the Holy Grail of therapeutic intervention, offering a plethora of distinct structural landscapes that can be targeted with high specificity. Arthanari lab uses structure-guided approaches to characterize and...

Natalie Artzi

abond@mgb.org

Hansjӧrg Wyss Associate Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering

The research in our lab focuses on tissue-responsive nanomaterials for biomedical applications and is dedicated to leveraging materials science and engineering, imaging and basic science to improve human health. We develop smart material platforms that...

Alejandro Benjamin Balazs

abalazs@mgh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Medicine

My laboratory employs approaches rooted in synthetic immunology as a means of engineering or enhancing the natural immune system with the goal of understanding, preventing and treating HIV infection. We are currently applying these approaches to a number...

Pratiti Bandopadhayay

pratiti_bandopadhayay@dfci.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer related death in childhood. Children that do survive are frequently left with life-long and devastating morbidities that arise from the tumors, and the treatments required to cure them. Our lab applies genomic...

Liron Bar-Peled

lbar-peled@mgh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Cancer cells display remarkable plasticity allowing them to adapt to ever changing environments. A key feature of this plasticity is their ability to rewire core metabolic networks to provide a steady source of energy and building blocks needed for rapid...

Amy Barczak

abarczak@mgh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Work in the Barczak lab focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. After COVID-19, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from infection globally. A comprehensive understanding of the cellular and molecular events that drive...

Roland Baron

Roland_Baron@hsdm.harvard.edu

Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity

Our longstanding interest is to study the molecular, cellular and genetic basis underlying cell function, differentiation and crosstalk in skeletal development, homeostasis, disease and repair. The skeleton, is a very dynamic tissue where the interactions...

Daniel E. Bauer

daniel.bauer@childrens.harvard.edu

Donald S. Fredrickson, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Therapeutic Genome Editing The β-hemoglobinopathies comprise the most common monogenic diseases worldwide, characterized by mutations of the β-globin constituent of hemoglobin. Re-induction of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) would counteract the fundamental...

Welcome Bender

redneb@hms.harvard.edu

Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

The bithorax complex in the fruit fly is a cluster of “homeotic” genes which confer distinct identities on the different segments of the fly. The genes are strikingly aligned on the DNA in the order of the segments they affect. Many of the interactions of...